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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. - The Treasure of Franchard.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

You would attain to the divine perfection....

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.